OpenAI and Cursor agree on agent coordinators. They disagree on who runs them.
The New Stack 3 weeks ago 10
OpenAI released the Agents API in public beta and Cursor launched Projects to coordinate multiple coding agents using a coordinator-worker split. The article highlights that Cursor moved its cloud-agent execution loop to Temporal and now handles 50 million actions a day across 7 million unique workflows. As a result, orchestration becomes the focus for reliability, with changes spanning durable execution, context/data-flow boundaries, provenance for debugging, and stricter separation between coordination authority and execution permissions.